On 6/5/2013 1:25 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 11:54:01AM +0930, Peter Loveday wrote:
You will probably have the best luck, right off the bat,
using all of the strobes in manual mode. This means you
cannot trigger off the pop-up flash because Pentax can't
understand why anyone would want to make any flash exposure
decisions for themselves, or even worse, remotely trigger
any flash that wasn't made with Pentax to use their wireless
sync protocol.
Hmm, doesn't the pop-up flash fire a single flash suitable as a
trigger when in M mode?
I must admit I've not recently tried this, maybe never with the K5.
To the best of my knowledge the pop-up flash is always in either pre-flash
auto mode, or wireless control mode.
There is no way to use it as a simple dumb flash.
I often rely on this when shooting flash, as I set the exposure manually
so as to control the ambient exposure, and let the auto flash control
the light on the subject.
When Im in the manual exposure mode, my istDS seems to fire flash as
full power
manual flash all the time. Flash Power is fairly weak though. Good
enough for close
up work though. Not that great for shooting groups.
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